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Measuring Accessibility: A Review and Proposal
- G. Pirie
- Economics
- 1 March 1979
An attempt is made to clarify some of the confusion about the notion of accessibility by examining the limitations, strengths, and conceptual bases of distance, topological, gravity, and…
THE POSSIBILITY AND POTENTIAL OF PUBLIC POLICY ON ACCESSIBILITY
- G. Pirie
- Political Science, Economics
- 1 October 1981
Reanimating a Comatose Goddess’: Reconfiguring Central Cape Town
- G. Pirie
- History
- 29 September 2007
Central Cape Town is no longer a tawdry, unsafe provincial enclave of day-time office workers, commuter shoppers and public administrators. After the decline since the 1980s due to suburban flight, a…
‘Africanisation’ of South Africa’s international air links, 1994–2003
- G. Pirie
- EconomicsJournal of Transport Geography
- 2 December 2004
On Spatial Justice
- G. Pirie
- Law
- 1 April 1983
This essay reflects on the desirability and possibility of fashioning a concept of spatial justice from notions of social justice and territorial social justice. The contested meaning, rival…
Geographies of Air Transport in Africa: Aviation’s ‘Last Frontier’
- G. Pirie
- Geography
- 9 March 2016
Incidental tourism: British Imperial air travel in the 1930s
- G. Pirie
- History
- 1 March 2009
Abstract Few air travellers along Britain's Empire air routes in the 1930s were intentional holidaymakers. Survey data and passenger profiles culled from other contemporary sources show that most…
THE SIGHT AND SOUL OF SOPHIATOWN
URBAN slums have been studied by social scientists for a long time. The detached, quantitative approaches of these investigators typically depict slums in pathological metaphors with data from…
Critical Issues in Tourism : A Geographical Perspective (2nd Edition), G. Shaw, and A.M. Williams (Editors) : book review
- G. Pirie
- Environmental Science
- 2004
Slaughter by Steam: Railway Subjugation of Ox-Wagon Transport in the Eastern Cape and Transkei, 1886-1910
- G. Pirie
- History
- 1993
The legendary part that humble ox wagons played in the penetration of the interior by white settlers has assured their place in South African history. Sketches and monuments galore glorify and…
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